Vista Deleting setup.exe

thereatoecutter · Nov 17, 2009

I published a application i made with vb2005 express edition, zipped it up with winzip and emailed to my friend who is using vista x64.

Whilst doing the extraction process vista is deleting the setup.exe but not the other files in the zipped file.

I have successfully done this on at least 5 other vista machine and have not had this issue before.

He is logged in on the only account according to him which is the admin account.

How can we overcome this security flaw?

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toe

avgwarhawk · Nov 18, 2009

If it has worked on 5 other Vista machines why would you belive this to be a security flaw? Try using a program called win.rar. Get the free version. Works better than ZIP in my opinion.

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

thereatoecutter · Nov 18, 2009

avgwarhawk said:
If it has worked on 5 other Vista machines why would you belive this to be a security flaw?

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

I am speculating this because i cannot see it being anything else.

I have deployed this to at least 3 other vista machine without any problems.

Is there a windows firewall in vista that would do something like this?

MilesAhead · Nov 22, 2009

Is the person using the built in Vista zip support? If so, ask them to try using 7zip. It sounds like something is detecting setup.exe and it thinks it is trying to execute on unpack. That's one reason I don't run av "resident" code. It tends to interfere with everything.

thereatoecutter · Nov 22, 2009

Thanks, i will ask them to test and let you know what happens.

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